Playlist “Psyche van het folk” Radio Centraal, Antwerpen : 2005-04-20 New acid-folk related releases ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ voices * Silber Media Tara Van Flower : My little fire-filled heart (UK,2005)*°° Tr.1, “Ligertily” 1 min Tr.2, “Yaya” 4 min Nice to listen to, spherical experimental album with woman’s voice experiments, textures, sounds… This is a solo-work of the duo Lycia with Mike Van Portfleet. It is comparable a bit to (-the NWW related-) Chrystal Belle Scrodd but a bit more “normal” and spherical. This track has something deliberate creative “magical”. Review at : http://singersong.homestead.com/newsingers-7.html#anchor_296 * VHF Rec. From Quagmire : Habitats in the wound (US,2005)***° Tr.4, “Between the shores” 3 min 7 Tr.5, “A Father’s Vision/Story of Knife” 11 min 14 Beautiful and intimate, very quiet and whispery song-orientated music with experimental textures. It has its own kind of uniqueness. First track is with Sharron Kraus, second track with Simon Wickham-Smith.. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview10.html#anchor_126 * Fonal Rec. Islaja : Palaa Aurinkoon (FIN,2005)**°° Tr.3, “Uni Pöllönä Olemisesta” 5 min Tr.8, “Rukki G.Jule Puutarhaan” 4 min 9 -16 Second album of this dreamy, slightly free-sound improvisational female psych- folk voice, with some creative subtonalities. Review : (second after) http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/finland.html#anchor_77 ac.guitar * Blastfirst Bruce Langhorne : Peter Fonda’s ‘The Hired Hand’(US,1971)**°° Tr.1-3, (instrumentals) 5 min Nice guitar based arrangements for a soundtrack. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/guitar5.html * Time-Lag Satwa (BR,1973)***° Tr.1, “Satwa” 7 min Tr.5, “Apocidonata” 5 min 13 -29 Nice instrumental guitars reissue of this duo guitarists consisting of Cortez (from Cortez/Ramhalo) and Lailson. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/guitar5.html * Innova Shawn Persinger is Prester John : The art of modern primitive guitar (US,2004)****° Tr.2, “Zero Percent” 2 min Tr.3, “30 krowns 300 zlotys” 3 min Tr.4, “Talking dumb” 4 min 8 -37 This is some of the more “normal” melodic picking which fit best with this show. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/guitar5.html * Jyrk Davenport : Marble Seed (US,2004)*’ Infinite, slow and minimal acoustic improvisation. Not airplayed. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview9.html#anchor_67 * Ploughmyth Sedayne : Splendor Solis (UK,1994)***° CD1, Tr.3, “Bird1” 4 min CD2, Tr.6, “Praximal Hearthdance” 4 min 8 Hypnotic spring acid folk. Difficult to leave out anything, the music just carries yuo away in it too much. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/sedayne.html * Ploughmyth Sedayne : The Raging of May (UK,1993)**** Tr.3, “Flute song 1” 3 min Tr.11, “The raging of may 4” 2 min Tr.13, “Harvest Myth 1993 part one” (fragment) 4 min -70 Another release which goes deeper into the semi-shamanic conscious experience of what May can offer. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/sedayne.html * private Feathers : Gnomeozoic live EP (US,2004)****’ Tr.1, “Old Black hat with a dandelion flower” 7 min Tr.3, “Ibex Horn” 10 min 17 -87 Great 70’s inspired psych-folk, with this track sounding exactly like a tempered Comus. Second track is more weird, with beautiful chorus vocal arrangements, tabla, sitar, acoustic guitar, piano, electric wahwah guitar,.. Highly recommended !! From Vermont. One of the best of the new psych-folk scene !! Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview9.html#anchor_68 * demo Askr : demo (US,2005)*** Tr.2, “Pangur Ban” 13 min Tr.3, “Walking Curious” 6 min (only fragment) A track with a slow psychedelic mood in psychfolk territories. This tracks sounds very much like the Antwerp/Belgian band Zaam. From San Fransisco Bay area. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview9.html#anchor_77 * Jagjaguwar The Skygreen Leopards : Life & Love in Sparrow’s Meadow (US,2004)*°° Tr.3, “Egyptian Rosemarie” 3 min -110 Psychfolksong item with summer ’68 or early 60’s feeling. This tracks gives very much an idea of the album. The duo understand eachother well. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview9.html#anchor_82 * Locust Music Apothecary Hymns : Trowel and era (US,2005)**°° Tr.2, “The Father” 5 min Tr.3, “The Marigold” 5 min (Tr.7, “The Conclusion, in which nothing is concluded” 3 min) (fragment in background while talking) Very good songcrafted Folkpsych with strong sound. “The Marigold” can also be found on the single which was released a few months before. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview2.html#anchor_68 * Private Damon & Naomi : The Earth is Blue (US,2005)**°° Tr.6, “While my guitar gently sweeps” 6 min -126 Dreamy lush psychfolk-pop duo with guitarist from Ghost. This is a Beatles interpretation which starts very nice, continues ok, is actually worth hearing as interpretation, with nice guitar too, some background trumpet. I like the song too. It’s my favourite track of this nice album. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview3.html#anchor_124 * Nielozilla Dies Natalis : Tristan (D, 2003)*°° Tr.10, “Die Uhr” 4 min Tr.13, “Tristan” 8 min (shortened) I prefer the German spoken tracks here but most tracks are in English. This is one of the few German attempts in the direction of acidfolkpop. Stylistically it’s 1 step outside the neo-folk scene, but then it’s also still connected. If everything was sung in German I would have liked it best. I chose the 2 German tracks for airplay. Spoken word by beautiful deep voice of Walter Piroch. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview9.html#anchor_73 * Phantasm. The God Box : Aaahh! (D,2005)***° Tr.2, “As it was yesterday” 4 min Tr.9, “Stars Flaming” 5 min I Tr. 10 : “Lavender hill’drive the hours away” 10 min Very enjoyable psychfolk-pop release by Limo (including mellotron, sitar etc.). First part with 7 out of 8 tracks which are more song-orientated, 4 other tracks are more spherical psychedelic, with 3 out of 4 long and very beautiful psych instrumentals. Recommended ! Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview2.html#anchor_80 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Other playlists : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/2005.html General index page : www.radiocentraal.be/psychevanhetfolk More detailed index page : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/index.html Receive weekly this playlist before the radioshow happens and with additional linked audio, with updates of new reviews and with additional comments : Subscribe : psychevanhetfolk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com